Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

Existing LLMs Are Not Self-Consistent For Simple Tasks

As of 20 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 13 of 13 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2506.18781.

A citation records a reference. It does not transfer a finding from one paper to another.

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2506.18781 v1

Coverage vector

measured 13 of 13 reference resolution

Typed states for the displayed outbound observations.

Source: paper_references, paper_reference_links, observed 2026-08-15T18:50:34.633016Z

measured 14 of 14 standing notices

One-hop event checks from named stored sources.

Source: scholarly_work_events, retraction_status_cache, observed 2026-08-20T06:33:59.587034+00:00

measured 1 of 1 inbound itemization

Pith citing papers itemized under the disclosed page cap.

Source: paper_references, paper_reference_links, observed 2026-08-07T01:00:02.801114Z

measured 0 of 1 external citation measurements

A source-named dated measurement, never combined with another source.

Source: pith, observed 2026-08-07T01:00:09.703953Z

Reference resolution

13 of 13 outbound references displayed

verified exact1
verified fuzzy2
unresolved3
parse uncertain6
malformed identifier1
metadata mismatch0

External citation measurements

No source-named external measurement is stored.

Outbound references

Observation f9b27b10-e9e1-4bae-a679-c902ea502a39 · outbound

This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

Existing LLMs Are Not Self-Consistent For Simple Tasks Unresolved cited work

Reference 1

Resolution: unresolved; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-15T18:50:34.956288Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

No event found in the named queried sources as of 2026-08-20T06:33:59.587034+00:00.

Observation 81dd16a1-64fb-4cb5-91be-2b1d6f1148f8 · outbound

This paper cites Life of Pi (Yann Martel).

Existing LLMs Are Not Self-Consistent For Simple Tasks Life of Pi (Yann Martel)

Reference 2

Resolution: verified fuzzy; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-15T18:50:34.939792Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

No event found in the named queried sources as of 2026-08-20T06:33:59.587034+00:00.

Observation 131a434b-985d-44ba-a6fd-662a57934c00 · outbound

This paper cites Contrastive Learning Is Spectral Clustering On Similarity Graph.

Existing LLMs Are Not Self-Consistent For Simple Tasks Contrastive Learning Is Spectral Clustering On Similarity Graph

Reference 3

Resolution: unresolved; no resolver link, observed 2026-08-15T18:50:34.580454Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

Unavailable: canonical work link unavailable.

Observation b8edb67b-f00c-4020-b8fe-fb8aa61fab34 · outbound

This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

Existing LLMs Are Not Self-Consistent For Simple Tasks Unresolved cited work

Reference 4

Resolution: parse uncertain; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-15T18:50:34.902843Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

No event found in the named queried sources as of 2026-08-20T06:33:59.587034+00:00.

Observation 0ed7f47d-605f-4e21-ab9c-81cbcd0b8f5f · outbound

This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

Existing LLMs Are Not Self-Consistent For Simple Tasks Unresolved cited work

Reference 5

Resolution: parse uncertain; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-15T18:50:34.886395Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

No event found in the named queried sources as of 2026-08-20T06:33:59.587034+00:00.

Observation ccdea899-d974-47bf-aec5-fae9bc5d5345 · outbound

This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

Existing LLMs Are Not Self-Consistent For Simple Tasks Unresolved cited work

Reference 6

Resolution: parse uncertain; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-15T18:50:34.870061Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

No event found in the named queried sources as of 2026-08-20T06:33:59.587034+00:00.

Observation 3318cfd9-23d6-479f-bf93-170c06d2b422 · outbound

This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

Existing LLMs Are Not Self-Consistent For Simple Tasks Unresolved cited work

Reference 7

Resolution: parse uncertain; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-15T18:50:34.921022Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

No event found in the named queried sources as of 2026-08-20T06:33:59.587034+00:00.

Observation 88d9c4ba-6c2b-4a49-a2ec-2b75d973a69e · outbound

This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

Existing LLMs Are Not Self-Consistent For Simple Tasks Unresolved cited work

Reference 9

Resolution: parse uncertain; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-15T18:50:34.836303Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

No event found in the named queried sources as of 2026-08-20T06:33:59.587034+00:00.

Observation da2b6abd-feed-4cc1-81c5-76852b442cce · outbound

This paper cites before” more than “after.

Existing LLMs Are Not Self-Consistent For Simple Tasks before” more than “after

Reference 10

Resolution: verified exact; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-15T18:50:34.783534Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

No event found in the named queried sources as of 2026-08-20T06:33:59.587034+00:00.

Observation 66e59fce-b109-4de8-9bf6-5fc3bd3123a6 · outbound

This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

Existing LLMs Are Not Self-Consistent For Simple Tasks Unresolved cited work

Reference 11

Resolution: parse uncertain; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-15T18:50:34.853763Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

No event found in the named queried sources as of 2026-08-20T06:33:59.587034+00:00.

Observation 7cccea09-052b-4b26-a090-8bf84a087e8a · outbound

This paper cites Reasoning about concepts with LLMs: Inconsistencies abound.

Existing LLMs Are Not Self-Consistent For Simple Tasks Reasoning about concepts with LLMs: Inconsistencies abound

Reference 1972

Resolution: unresolved; no resolver link, observed 2026-08-15T18:50:34.586348Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

Unavailable: canonical work link unavailable.

Observation 57050bd2-e15e-4d09-8ad6-32abf921f7e4 · outbound

This paper cites URLhttps://openreview.net/forum?id=jE8xbmvFin.

Existing LLMs Are Not Self-Consistent For Simple Tasks URLhttps://openreview.net/forum?id=jE8xbmvFin

Reference 2024

Resolution: verified fuzzy; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-15T18:50:34.974005Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

No event found in the named queried sources as of 2026-08-20T06:33:59.587034+00:00.

Observation 892ee153-00cb-46a3-9e41-b7dfc30276f7 · outbound

This paper cites DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning.

Existing LLMs Are Not Self-Consistent For Simple Tasks DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

Reference 2025

Resolution: malformed identifier; no resolver link, observed 2026-08-15T18:50:34.568494Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

Unavailable: canonical work link unavailable.

Pith citing papers

Observation 9f09b363-19cf-4b5b-89f5-c7add8f0eab7 · inbound

Position: It's Time to Optimize LLMs for Self-Consistency cites this paper.

Position: It's Time to Optimize LLMs for Self-Consistency Existing LLMs Are Not Self-Consistent For Simple Tasks

Reference 41

Resolution: metadata mismatch; local_arxiv, observed 2026-08-07T01:00:09.757846Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

No event found in the named queried sources as of 2026-08-20T06:33:59.587034+00:00.